After opting not to workout at February’s NFL Combine, former San Diego State running back Adam Muema ended weeks of speculation about his football future – and likely, any chance at an NFL career – by skipping out on the Aztecs Pro Day.

Muema’s name was on the list of athletes who were scheduled to work out for NFL scouts Thursday afternoon, but the running back was conspicuously absent from the group of a dozen former Aztecs who participated in the Pro Day.

“With no communication it’s hard to know what to expect,” SDSU running backs coach Jeff Horton said, adding that he’d exchanged text messages with Muema leading up to Pro Day, but never talked to him on the phone. “He makes his own decisions now.”

The running back left the NFL Combine early citing religion, and since then, he’s been vocal on Twitter about his belief in Lord Rayel, an individual on the internet who claims he is the second coming of God.

Former SDSU safety Nat Berhe said he wasn’t surprised that Muema opted out of the workout.

“With everything that’s surrounding him right now, I don’t think he’d want to show up and be bombarded by a lot of questions,” Berhe said.

Former SDSU running back Walter Kazee, who was Muema’s roommate for the 2012-13 school year, said he had hoped to see Muema at Pro Day.

“I haven’t talked to him since the season,” said Kazee, who exhausted his eligibility in 2012, but stayed in San Diego working out and rehabbing his surgically repaired right ACL. “He changed his phone number and I haven’t been able to get in touch with him.”

Pro Day was likely Muema’s last chance to get on the radar of NFL teams in the lead up to May’s NFL Draft. Personnel from 18 NFL teams came out to watch the former Aztecs run through the full complement of combine drills and some position drills.

Berhe tested well at the NFL Combine but wanted to improve his bench press and 40 yard dash time. He managed 17 reps on the 225-pound bench press (up from 15 at the combine) and ran a 4.5 40-yard dash (up from 4.71 at the combine).

“I went back to my old stance,” Berhe said, referring to his starting position on the 40-yard dash. “I went away from it before and it hurt me. … I just drove out and got a nice start and the rest is history.”

Safety Eric Pinkins also put up a strong showing in his combine drills.

Pinkins, who finished second behind Berhe with 75 tackles in 2013, led all Aztecs with a 39.5-inch vertical jump. He finished with times of 4.46 and 4.40 in his two attempts at the 40-yard dash.

“I told you I was going to run in the 4.4s. To expect me to run in the 4.6, that’s nonsense,” said Pinkins.

Pinkins strained his hamstring during his second attempt at the 40, and was not quite at his best for the second component of the workout – shuttles and position drills.

“I still muscled through the drills. There’s no point in sitting out the drills when you trained three months for this,” Pinkins said. “I wasn’t at 100 percent, but I gave 100 percent and that was good enough for me.”

As expected, wide receiver Colin Lockett showed off his speed with a 4.4 40-yard dash, but said he was especially happy with how he performed in position drills.

“I feel like I did my best and caught the ball well, I knew that was a big question in a lot of guys’ books,” Lockett said. “Wherever the ball was, I tried to get my hands on it, and I feel like I did that today. I ran my routes full speed and a lot of scouts just said ‘you looked fast on tape and you showed it here.”